Preshithan Quotes & Sayings

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! — William Blake

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them. — George R R Martin

If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In general, [ ... ] novel-theorists have nothing very urgent or interesting to say about literature. Why then do they write when they have nothing to say? Because the ambitious teacher can only rise in the academic bureaucracy by writing at complicated length about writing that has already been much written about. The result of all this book-chat cannot interest anyone who knows literature while those who would like to learn something about books can only be mystified and discouraged by these commentaries. — Gore Vidal

Was it risky? Yep.
Was it rude? Oh, yeah.
Was it stupid? Most likely.
But I'd said it anyway. — Embee

I know the law ... I am it's greatest transgressor. — Roy Bean

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all. — Joseph Conrad

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes. — Christian Louboutin

Elijah is inexplicably moved by the broken columns and fragmented floors. He cannot help but find a meaning and a message in their poverty of stature. This is what remains, he thinks. It seems a valuable lesson on a day when card catalogs are dying, communications are deleted, and buildings crumble under the weight of society's expectations. — David Levithan

I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife. — Andy Pettitte

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful. — Joan Miro